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DIY Bookbinding Tutorial Part 2

Do It Yourself Book Binding Tutorial – Part 1

A simple little origami paper trick started a new interest for me in bookbinding – and eventually this handmade bookbinding tutorial. I found a blog article with a link to a PDF file that, when printed out and folded, created a very useful little 8 page expense tracking booklet that would slip in your pocket. […]

Marketing Strategies for Book Authors

I have a friend who is a fiction writer. We were talking today about ideas for promoting a book she is writing. She writes in a variety of genres, but the book in question is in the ‘chick-lit’ category – at least that’s what she calls it. I came up with these suggestions: Blog – […]

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How To Create Paperback Book Covers For Your Self-Published Books

My Do-It-Yourself Bookbinding article has turned out to be one of the most popular articles on this site. It came from my desire to have printed copies of some of the many e-books I have collected over the years. Very often I don’t worry about putting a cover on the book and just bind the […]

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Plastic Comb Binding For Self-Publishers

Plastic Comb Binding (also known as Comb Binding) is an inexpensive and readily available method of book binding. The spine edge of the paper stack is punched with a series of rectangular holes. The Plastic Comb, which is a tube of flexible plastic with a series of teeth cut into one edge, is threaded through […]

Making Booklets From PDF Files

Are you trying to print out the contents of a PDF document in booklet format? A colleague of mine just told me about a very long and drawn out process he went through to create a booklet for his work. The original file he was given for the project had been created with Microsoft Publisher. […]

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Review: Easy BookBinding By Nathan DeStephano

Easy BookBinding, by Nathan DeStephano, is the most current and complete resource I have found for learning how to print and bind your own trade paperback and case bound hardcover books. [UPDATE: This book is no longer available.] However, this book is NOT for everyone. It is NOT written for the book arts enthusiast who […]

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Building A Perfect Binding Machine – Examples

If you have set out to build your own bookbinding machine to create perfect bound paperback books, it is wise to seek out some examples of machines used in the binding industry. That is easier said than done, but I have located a few places that sell such machines and even found a video demonstrating […]

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Do It Yourself Book Binding Tutorial – Part 2

In Do It Yourself Book Binding Tutorial – Part 1 we looked at the some of the options I found for creating books by hand and the reasons why I settled on a trade paperback style glue-bound book for my project. Now it is time to take a detailed look at the steps I took […]

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Make Cool Little Booklets With Your Computer

The Lifehacker blog highlighted a website today that showed you how to create an 8 page personal finance booklet. Print out the PDF document, fold and cut as directed, and voila – instant booklet! This is cool! While I don’t really need the FILO booklet itself, the idea of being able to make cool little […]

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